Is advanced lung cancer chemotherapy still useful

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Uncle is a lung cancer patient, recently went to the hospital review, found that the disease has developed to advanced stage, do not know whether chemotherapy is still useful, listen to people say it is useless, let me talk about lung cancer advanced chemotherapy is still useful.

Is advanced lung cancer chemotherapy still useful

First: in our country, the current chemotherapy is still in the case of operation when it can be operated, and chemotherapy when it can not be operated. General advanced lung cancer, because of the extensive metastasis and diffusion of cancer cells, simple local treatment, including surgery and radiotherapy, the effect is limited, so patients and their families have high hopes for chemotherapy, chemotherapy is systemic, not only for the primary cancer, but also for the metastasis. Therefore, it is generally believed that advanced lung cancer chemotherapy can make patients live for a period of time .

Second: chemotherapy is indeed a better way to prolong the life of patients with lung cancer in the late stage, but we must also realize that chemotherapy can not absolutely prolong the survival period, maybe just let patients live a few more months. And the side effects of chemotherapy are immeasurable, especially for patients with advanced lung cancer, their body has been relatively weak, and may even be unable to withstand the side effects of chemotherapy.

Thirdly, there are still many controversies about whether advanced chemotherapy is useful for lung cancer. Therefore, we should tell the patients about their condition and the treatment they are going to take, and give them the full right to know and choose, which is also a means to urge them to cooperate with the treatment. For patients with obvious effect of chemotherapy, we suggest that they continue chemotherapy within the acceptable range of the body, while those who can not receive chemotherapy should be given hospice care.

matters needing attention

Advanced lung cancer due to extensive metastasis of cancer cells, chemotherapy is systemic, in general, chemotherapy is still useful for the treatment of advanced lung cancer, but this use is not absolute and significant, need to see whether the patient's constitution is suitable for chemotherapy.